More Real
Welcome to More Real a Podcast about real people for real people!
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 58 minutes
- Episodes
- 37
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2020
How do you listen?
I ask 3 people including me, Willow (13) and Eden (21) how do you listen? We discuss the importance of truly listening and how most people don’t do that and when you’re with someone who does how good…
How important is human connection?
I ask 5 people including me, Willow (13), Jess (15), Jude (17) and Eden (21) how important is human connection. We discuss how each person connects, what each person struggles and needs from human co…
Are you grateful?
I ask 5 people including me, Willow (13), Jess (15), Jude (17) and Eden (21) are you grateful? We discuss the importance of gratitude and being grateful for the small things in life. Some useful exer…
Why did you want to be a dad?
A regular guest on my podcast Richard is a father of two boys (8 and 14 yrs). He shares his journey of becoming a father. Having to deal with not experiencing the birth he and his partner had anticip…
What did your dad mean to you?
This was a great chat with Roni a father of 2 children (17 and 18yrs). Roni talks about the challenges he faced as a child, dealing with a strong detached father and how his perception of him changed…
Do you know who you are and what you want from your life?
I ask Willow (13), Jess (15) Jude (17) and Eden (21) do you know who you and what you want from your life? For me these questions are important in being able to understand truly who are and if you co…
Being a dad - The toughest and most rewarding experience of my life!
In this solo pod I talk about my journey of being a dad. I share the challenges I faced along the way and how I didn’t know what I was doing but worked it out as I went. I’ve made lots of mistakes bu…
Do you love yourself?
I ask 5 people including me, Willow (13 yrs), Jess (15 yrs), Jude (17 yrs) and Eden (21 yrs) do you love yourself? This topic has hugely affected my life, as I’m a 50 year old man who hasn’t loved hi…
Which wolf will you feed?
We started by discussing the classic Cherokee Indian legend about which wolf will you feed which I find fascinating. Eden is a beautiful person who at 21 has seen a lot of life. She’s experienced chi…
How have you grown through your suffering?
Suffering leads to transformation. Pain is necessary despite what society tells you that being uncomfortable and feeling vulnerable aren’t good and you should push those feelings away, move on and fe…
Who do you think you are?
This is a deep dive into the human psyche. Understanding there is a big difference between happiness or the illusion of happiness and meaning in your life. Nicky’s had a journey of discovering who he…
What have you struggled the most with in your life?
Depression, mental illness and emotional childhood trauma. As a child Adrian had been through a lot. His mother was heavily addicted to prescription drugs and his father a Vietnam vet was not present…
A friend calls to tell you he is going to commit suicide. How would you deal with that?
Jonathan felt different as a child and stood out which unfortunately made him an easy target to be bullied. Sadly, this has had a huge negative impact on his life and affected him greatly. His messag…
How do you deal with a parent’s declining health?
At a young age Kate had to deal with the fear around her mothers early on set dementia. Trying to navigate her way through this and understand her own feelings threw up a lot of issues and was extrem…
Where do you belong?
This question threw up a lot of issues and challenges that Shellie had to deal with in her life. Moving to a new place and having to try and fit into the myriad of social groups at her new school. In…
Phil had the incredible skill of seeing future events before they happened
From an early age Phil suffered terrible illness that affected him in so many ways. He grew up in the mining towns on the west coast of Tasmania in the 1950’s. As a kid he was very sick and was given…
I hadn’t dealt with any of my pain and I just wanted to end my life!
For a large part of his life Luke lived with pain and misery unable to have honest relationships with people close to him. For most of his time at school he was bullied because as he put it “I was un…
Imagine having the ability to know a person and understand them before you’ve spoken to them?
Adam is highly empathic and as a child was able to receive information that he had no control over. He had no boundaries and so unfortunately was bullied at school and became an easy target for those…
What if you’re just not seen in the world and your parents pay no attention to you at all! How do you deal with that as an adult?
Susan talks passionately about her life of disconnection and feeling shut down as a child. She had no idea about life and how to be in it! She learnt how to be in the world by mirroring what went on …
Richard and I talk about how to deal with conforming and fear
In today’s episode I’m talking to a friend of mine Richard who lives with his partner and 2 boys in a suburb of Melbourne. He’s a film maker and musician. We discuss conforming, how he views it and d…